Posted on 12/24/2018 3:15:38 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Seattle is on the verge of making some controversial land-use changes that advocates say will make this increasingly expensive city more livable for people who aren’t wealthy.
The city may soon allow taller buildings in the cores of many neighborhoods and ease restrictions on mother-in-law apartments and backyard cottages. But change is hard: Those moves have encountered legal challenges.
Minneapolis this month took a much more dramatic step on density meant to ease its real-estate crunch and address its history of racial segregation: The City Council there voted to end single-family zoning altogether. Moving ahead, the Midwest city will allow duplexes and triplexes on every block.
The Seattle Times talked with Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender about the headline-grabbing change that she championed. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
What just happened in Minneapolis?
We just adopted our Minneapolis 2040 plan. We’re required to adopt a land-use and infrastructure plan every 10 years, and this time our goals included eliminating racial disparities and taking action to fight climate change.
As part of that, the new plan says you can build up to three units on every lot. We’ll no longer have neighborhoods set aside for single-family homes.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
So now it’s an insane asylum dominated by anthills.
Minnesomalia takes one more step closer to being like their homeland.
And the middle class will flee the city.
The Democrats running the show in Denver have got a similar concept. Drive out the middle class. Lots of low income peasants and lots of ultra wealthy doners who contribute to the Democrat Political Party. Lots of high density apartment buildings, destroy neighborhoods, load the streets with too many cars, make living in Denver almost impossible and generate massive profits for the land Developers and their political operatives in the Democrat Political Machine. The low income types get Democrat government assistance and vote Democrat. The middle class votes Republican and therefore they are to be gotten rid of.
“this time our goals included eliminating racial disparities and taking action to fight climate change.”
I truly despise these little dictators wanting to impose their liberal beliefs on the rest of us.
“Midwest city will allow duplexes and triplexes on every block.”
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While I’m glad I left the heckhole city a long time back, I have no beef if landowners there choose to build duplexes/triplexes or whatever on their property.
And the middle class will flee the city.
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I’m one suburb away from Minniapolstan. I can’t wait to get out of here. .
Spot on post, cannot change the way they vote, change the people. That is what is going on here.
I betcha the dem politicians there will have new single-family homes.
Bank on it.
Lots of open acreage and low-density dormitory housing on college campuses. Room for tens of thousands of “migrants” on every campus to move right in. The lucky students will learn new cultures and languages, while supplying all needed services such as hospitality and medical care.
if there’s anything Minnesotans should WANT .. its a little Global Warming
you can freeze your sweet petunias off there,
ha ha!
Just another way to turn people slowly into automatons.
A city becomes a reflection of the residents eventually.
The USA is in full blown prosperity retreat.
She lies.
if this stands, the city will soon be hollowed out like Detroit and others as the middle-class flees to the suburbs, leaving oceans of unsalable, decaying crack houses where there once stood vibrant single-family neighborhoods and resulting in a disintegrating tax base ...
Looks like Minneapolis is hell-bent on turning itself into a third world feceshole.
Dumbasses
Good bye property rights.
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